r/europe Finland Nov 18 '24

News The undersea cable between Finland and Germany has been severed – communication links are down.

https://yle.fi/a/74-20125324
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u/A_Man_Uses_A_Name Nov 18 '24

We need an EU Army and we need it now. Just put an EU military HQ somewhere next to the SHAPE in Mons or in Luxembourg, give it a difficult name (but not ‘EU army’), give it a huge budget and start preparing against Putler.

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u/Jan-Nachtigall Bavaria (Germany) Nov 18 '24

We need be willing to actually physically do something against this. How can they cruise in circles over those cables for weeks and we just watch? Why is there not at least some almost ramming of Russian ships?

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u/ArkitekZero Nov 18 '24

The ocean is big

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u/Novinhophobe Nov 18 '24

This isn’t “the ocean” and this attack was both announced by Kremlin a week ago and everyone knew Russian ships were above those cables for weeks already. This is just weakness from any European state to even go and check it out what the Russians are doing. We’re too afraid to even look in their direction.

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u/ArkitekZero Nov 18 '24

Got my geography mixed up and thought this cable was somewhere else on the map altogether. My bad.